蜉

蜉 U+8709, 蜉 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8709 ← 蜈 [U+8708] CJK Unified Ideographs 蜊 → [U+870A]

Translingual

Han character

蜉 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 中戈月弓木 (LIBND), four-corner 5214₇, composition ⿰虫孚)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1084, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33104
• Dae Jaweon: page 1552, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2857, character 3
• Unihan data for U+8709

Chinese

simp. and trad.		蜉
alternative forms		𧖚 𧕰

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (孚) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
殍	*brɯwʔ, *browʔ, *pʰuw
脬	*pʰruː
捊	*bruː, *buw
莩	*browʔ, *pʰuw
哹	*pu, *bu
浮	*bu
蜉	*bu
桴	*bu, *pʰuw
罦	*bu, *pʰuw
琈	*bu
粰	*bu
烰	*bu
艀	*bu
俘	*pʰuw
孚	*pʰuw
孵	*pʰuw
稃	*pʰuw
郛	*pʰuw
筟	*pʰuw

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *bəw (“insect, bug, vermin, snake”); cognate with Burmese ပိုး (pui:, “insect”), Tibetan འབུ ('bu, “iworm, bug”), Apatani ta-bu (“snake”), bu-rũ & bu-di (“python”), Southern Qiang bù ló (bug, maggot), etc. (STEDT). Schuessler (2007) also proposes cognacy with Tibetan སྦུར (sbur, “ant”), yet STEDT doesn't.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fú (fu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fau⁴
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): hû

  (Teochew, Peng'im): pu⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fú
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fú
    • Wade–Giles: fu²
    • Yale: fú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fwu
    • Palladius: фу (fu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fu³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: fau⁴
    • Yale: fàuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fau⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: feo⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɐu̯²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hû
    • Tâi-lô: hû
    • Phofsit Daibuun: huu
    • IPA (Quanzhou, Xiamen): /hu²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hu¹³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: pu⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: phû
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰu⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: bjuw

Rime
Character	蜉
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	尤 (136)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	縛謀切
Baxter	bjuw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/bɨu/
Pan Wuyun	/biu/
Shao Rongfen	/biəu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/buw/
Li Rong	/biu/
Wang Li	/bĭəu/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱi̯ə̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fóu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fau4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[b](r)u/

  (Zhengzhang): /*bu/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	蜉
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	fú
Middle Chinese	‹ bjuw ›
Old Chinese	/*[b](r)u/
English	mayfly
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蜉
Reading #	1/1
No.	3347
Phonetic component	孚
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	浮
Old Chinese	/*bu/

Definitions

蜉

1. Only used in 蜉蝣 (fúyóu) and 蚍蜉 (pífú).
2. ^‡ big ant

Compounds

• 撼樹蚍蜉／撼树蚍蜉
• 蚍蜉 (pífú)
• 蚍蜉撼大樹／蚍蜉撼大树 (pífúhàndàshù)
• 蚍蜉撼樹／蚍蜉撼树 (pífúhànshù)
• 蚍蜉酒草
• 蜉蝣 (fúyóu)
• 蜉蝣在世 (fúyóu zàishì)
• 螞蚍蜉／蚂蚍蜉

 

Japanese

Kanji

蜉

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. mayfly
2. large ant

Readings

• Go-on: ぶ (bu)
• Kan-on: ふう (fū)
• Kan’yō-on: ふ (fu)

Compounds

Compounds

• 蜉蝣(かげろう) (kagerō), 蜉蝣(ふゆう) (fuyū): mayfly
• 蚍蜉(ひふ) (hifu): large ant

Korean

Hanja

蜉 • (bu) (hangeul 부, revised bu, McCune–Reischauer pu, Yale pu)

1. mayfly
2. kind of large insect

Vietnamese

Han character

蜉: Hán Việt readings: phù

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Compounds

Compounds

• 蜉蝣 (phù du)